Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The past couple of months for me on Twitter has been...interesting, to say the least. If a psychologist ever needed to conduct an experiment in psychotic human behavior, all they'd need to do is read the right-wing tweets of nut job Scott Walker supporters and Knot My Wisconsin members.

I've been a regular user for a few years, but it's only gotten this bad for myself recently. It started at the end of December 2013 when I was browsing through tweets under the #wiunion hashtag. What I found among the few tweets of progressive intellectualism, were an army of Knots and various other right-wing nuts harassing Twitter users expressing progressive views. Of course, being the person I am, I engaged with one of this knuckle dragging morons and immediately I found myself becoming the target of vicious and disgusting personal attacks. I can handle that. I'm Irish and Norwegian, so I was blessed with a quick wit and smart ass attitude. I can trade barbs with the best of 'em. However, what I cannot deal with, accept or tolerate, it this:

Gee, sorry your overlord Hitler disappointed you.

Yep. This is a Scott Walker supporter telling me how much he wished Nazi's had killed all of my family back in Norway. Isn't that lovely? Hmm...can't say I ever recall a progressive saying something to this extreme. And you know, I could accept that this idiot and his right-wing ilk were just a vocal minority until I saw this tweet begging has been couple Chris and Dana Loesch, to re-tweet a hilariously ironic tweet about honoring a ww2 vet (is Tom aware that vet was fighting against fascist Hitler?)

Which of course, Chris Loesch retweeted:

Talk about "the company you keep" eh?

The attacks didn't just fizzle out after awhile. Once you're on their radar, you stay there forever. They took it above going after me. They moved onto harassing my husband
and stalking our every bit of information online on a near daily basis. They managed to find out things I had no idea anyone would know, or even care about. So I have to ask - is this really who the GOP wants to
have representing their party? It's safe to say, "birds of a feather flock together." These Knots pray to the alter of Charlie Sykes, Vicki McKenna and local Republican parties. Charlie Sykes certainly could never tell someone he wished Hitler slaughtered all of someone's family (though I'm sure he thinks it) so they have their Twitter orcs to do their bidding for them.

Oh yeah. They're really racist, too.

Social media is a curse and a blessing. If we needed more proof that civil discourse in America is dead, just browse through Twitter. "Debates" turn into a toxic puddle of verbal poisons lobbed back and forth. And I won't play the innocent card - I've told my fair share of people exactly where they can go, but only because they never even tried to debate me. They ignore the meat of my points and go right for personal attacks. "You're fat!" "You're ugly!" Ohh, you sure got me, guys. I guess not everyone could graduate from elementary school. And these Knots are certainly examples of what happens when you don't.

Where is Scott Walker calling on his supporters to curb the rhetoric? Does he really support something like this?

Or this:

The right-wing revels in this behavior because it whips their base into a frenzy. This is the Tea Party. This is the modern GOP. This is why they're losing supporters and elections. But really, we should just continue to let them speak. It shows the truth about what being conservative really means.

11 comments:

I honestly believe they have a database, and they have paid commenters that attack anything written by people in their database. I have been stalked and many death threats hurled in comments at me because I stand with unions.

Ah, but you've gotten back at them by posting as "anonymous." Right this moment, some tea bagger is running an online search to find out who this frequent poster "anonymous" is, while planning more ad hominem assaults on him or her. Should keep the riff-raff busy for years tilting at windmills. Of course, the downside is that when they figure out "anonymous" is a widely shared nom de plume ["Oh no! The Frenchies, again!"], they'll try to ban anonymous web postings.

Most are indeed paid by GOPs (see Brian Pierick), the rest are just losers. They're not worth wasting my time and energies over, as most want to get us off-topic and angry because they can't win a fair battle of wits. So I just block em, and recommend you do as well.

For the authorities, I believe his name is Tom O'Connor and he's a trucker from Illinois. He appears to be Catholic, adopted, extreme anti-choice, doesn't think much of women. He may have been involved in a truck accident where a good Samaritan was killed trying to help him. Doesn't work much as a trucker though; may live off his adoptive family's wealth, leaving him far too much time on his hands (second career as a right-wing troll). He's a creepy dude. Two sandwiches short of a picnic.